This week, debts are paid off—by both Lannisters and wildlings; sisters dispense sisterly advice; a king-slayer is ransomed; and Robb Stark gives in to raging hormones—at last filling the series’ weekly nudity/sex-scene quota! Over in King’s Landing, Tyrion is doing his best to prepare the city for siege, as well as curb Joffrey’s idiocy as best he can. Meanwhile Tywin Lannister decides it’s time to stop hiding at Harrenhal and ride out in search of Robb. On to this week’s power ranking!

__1. Stannis Baratheon__Now closing in on King’s Landing, Stannis seems to have a number of things in his favor—a strong fleet, an army that outnumbers the Kingsguard, the momentum of his recent victory of Renley, the favor of the Red God. So sure is he of his impending victory that he names Davos his Hand-to-be. (Which is interesting because he took part of Davos’s hand at one point, and no one made any jokes about this. C’mon!)

__2. Lannister__Tyrion is preparing the city as best he can for the impending siege, and Joffrey seems excited to use his sword. Cersei appears too busy with plotting against Tyrion to really pay attention to the battle prep—you have to think if she applied half as much effort in her defense as she does to destroying Tyrion, King’s Landing might just stand a chance. Alas, she seems more inclined to the torturing of Tyrion and whores.

__3. Stark__Stark is dropping quite a bit in this week’s ranking—Robb seems to have lost his touch for maintaining power, though not with the ladies (sex! Robb has sex! And is maybe in love!). Catelyn allows Jamie Lannister to escape, which is problematic for a lot of reasons—namely that he was their chief bargaining chip—and also it plain-old looks bad when the king’s mother goes around covertly doing things like that.

__4. Daenerys Targaryen__Is anyone else getting tired of this plot? Girl has barely done anything all season but lose her dragons, after all that talk about them being her children. It’s all getting a bit tired. Ditto to the Jorah Mormont declarations of devotion. We get it—you love her, she doesn’t quite love you, but she needs you. Yawn. Step up your game, Daenerys—we’ll be here.

__5. Theon Greyjoy__Still coming in last, even though Daenerys is a world away and lost her dragons, because he is a child killer anda liar, and basically, in the words of his sister, “the dumbest cunt alive.” We discover that Theon didn’t find Bran and Rickon after all, but instead killed the two boys who lived on the farm and burned their bodies so the people of the town wouldn’t know the difference. He’s now abandoned at Winterfell, as he won’t leave with his sister. She’ll leave him no protection and, as she points out, every man in the north will want his head. None too promising for young Theon.

Making headlines elsewhere in Westeros:

Arya convinces Jaqen H’ghar to help her escape, despite only having one name left to name, and needing him to take more lives than that in order for her to make a clean getaway. We hope this isn’t the last we see of him.

Jon Snow isn’t killed by the Lord of Bones on the spot, because Ygritte convinces him that Mance will want a word with the somehow famous Bastard of Winterfell. In doing so, she also repays Jon Snow for not killing her. Turns out, Qhorin the Halfhand is also a prisoner, but his prospects seem more bleak. It would appear he has a plan afoot of some persuasion, as he tells Jon Snow that he must make sure that the other rangers who were killed were not for nothing.